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The Teatreneu club in Barcelona has introduced the system. It’s a response, reportedly, to a spike in Spanish government taxes on theatre tickets, which has scared audiences off live performance. This pay-per-laugh wheeze draws on facial recognition technology. A tablet is fitted to the back of each seat, which reads audience members’ facial expressi ...

All children think about their future. To know what it is that they think about, Emirates NBD conducted a social experiment asking children to send a message to their future selves. And while they spoke to their future selves, their parents watched. Turns out, they seek many more achievements in their future than just the professions we imagine them in. And while we may not be a part of their futu ...

Until confronted with an emergency, people don't understand that knowing first aid can be the difference between life and death. If you're not equipped to deal with an emergency, you're helpless. This blunt ad uses an invisible barrier to dramatise that feeling. A mother sees her son in trouble after he hits his head jumping into their swimming pool. She frantically leaps into the pool only to lan ...

Havas Worldwide India uncovered this cultural truth and started a movement to raise awareness of the issue without spending a single rupee. Every married Indian woman wears a red bindi, a dot on her forehead representing honor, love and prosperity. Havas India decided to contrast the red bindi with a white one, as a symbol of lost childhood and a colorless future. (http://havas.com)

Most people think they’re skilled enough to drive a little over the limit. The NZ Transport Agency asked us to reframe the way people thought about their own speed. We did this by showing that other people – real people – make mistakes, and when that happens – as it inevitably does – our speed is the one variable we can control to determine the outcome of the ensuing collision. (http://w ...

We put this claim to the test again by providing a vivid description of Franz Marc’s painting “the Blue Horse” to blind children and then asking them to build it using LEGO bricks. Blind and severely visually-impaired children were able to access the painting for the first time in their lives. With the help of LEGO they created their own three-dimensional works of art that were brought to t ...

The campaign leverages the mobile platform where users of Meitu are encouraged to snap pictures of everyday items that resemble fries and collect them into their virtual ‘McDonald’s Fries Box.’ By sharing the pictures on their social media channels, participants will have the opportunity to be rewarded with free fries at McDonald’s. The “I See Fries” campaign aims to encourage consumers to see an ...

Aid Couture displayed boutique-style in a series of sale events in popular malls. Proceeds were then used to purchase immediate-need life essentials like food, medicine and water for calamity victims. The program showcased Procter and Gamble’s mantra of “Touching Lives, Improving Life.” Its successful execution hinged on numerous pro-bono services from various partners including celebrities and me ...

King Joffrey tumbled to the ground in Aotea Square on April 7, only a few days after the campaign started, and just in time for the highly anticipated launch of the fourth season of the cult TV series Game of Thrones. Through a world-first experiential and social media event, Game of Thrones fans were challenged to use their collective voices through the power of social media t ...

Our campaign spoke directly to lovers, and addressed one of the biggest problems in modern relationships; technology. We wanted to create a movement that called on couples to realise just how much their obsessions with gadgets and gizmos are leaving them totally disconnected from each other. After all, how can couples be having great sex when Flappy Bird, Facebook friends and the whole of Twitter ...

Mastercard announced the launch of its Priceless Engine – an innovative new platform for marketing that allows the brand to provide its bank partners with the deep insights that help them deliver the right offers to their customers at the right time. The Priceless Engine will see MasterCard leverage its depth of analytic capabilities to help its partner banks understand consume ...

Seven years after its troubled PS3 launch, PlayStation faced the most important console launch in the most critical year of the brand’s history. How would we turn the tide? By flying in the face of the industry trend toward entertainment over gaming and launching a single-minded idea that would speak to the brand’s legacy – and directly to gamers hearts. And so “Greatness Awaits” was born. This ne ...

Gillette 'Scandal Shave' is a story of how an orchestrated celebrity scandal resuscitated Gillette's business in China. Inspired by the insight that Chinese women find men wet shaving arousing; an unbranded 'private' video of national sweetheart Gao Yuan Yuan, scantily clad and intimately wet shaving a man was 'leaked', generating a national scandal of enormous proportion. (http://www.apaceff ...

To launch The Fuji Xerox 2100 digital printer in a truly unique way, we created a campaign that was unlike anything the printing sector had ever experienced before. We took the product and audience out of the drab, functional office environment and put them under the lights of the flamboyant and glamorous world of high fashion. The Haus of Versant campaign took the industry out of its comfort zone ...

Anyone who books a Travel & Surf Pass for a vacation can use their mobile devices at any time and share special moments immediately with their friends. The Travel & Surf Pass pass lets customers enjoy their vacations, without worrying about where to find the next Wi-Fi spot. The campaign concept is based on this premise and exaggerates odd behaviors that many are familiar with. (https ...

Idea Cellular's "No Ullu Banoing" campaign was created to demonstrate how the mobile internet can empower users. "Idea Cellular's campaign 'No Ulla Banoing' was outstanding because it was based on a powerful and universal cultural insight that worked across the whole of India, across urban and rural populations and across socio-economic classes.(https://www.warc.com)

Three Feel At Home allows you to call and text back home and use data, at no extra cost, like you would at home. We sincerely apologise for any holiday spam that floods your social media. (https://www.youtube.com)

Long before a new Porsche model appears in the showroom, vast amounts of car enthusiasts sign up to buy the car. Many future buyers solely base their purchase decision on photos that circulate on the Internet. Porsche wants to know if people will show the same grit, even if the new model is completely in disguise. So we introduced the interactive platform Blind Trade, accompanied by online and pri ...